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Letters—including comments posted on alibi.com—may be published in any medium and edited for length and clarity; owing to the volume of correspondence, we regrettably can’t respond to every letter. Unprovable Assumptions? the number of species observed in collider experiments [three in both cases]; and the Dear Editor, cosmic microwave background radiation Steven Dapra wrote [Alibi v26, i43] that the discovered by two scientists Penzias and Wilson proposed changes to this failed state’s scientific [who shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics for standards have no merit? Even if the age of this their work]. glorious creation, the Planet Earth, is an He goes on to say that the observations of (alleged) 4.6 billion years old, does the explosion the variation in the temperature of the cosmic of the human (anthropomorphic) population in microwave background radiation from one part just the last 65 years, also lack merit? of the sky to another had “led to a stunning Why did Governor Martinez veto bipartisan confirmation of the Standard Model of passed state scientific standards? Cosmology,” not to mention the 2006 Nobel Why was Gov. Martinez’s veto of oversight of Prize in Physics for Messrs. Mather and Smoot charter schools influenced by Scott Glasrud, for their discovery of the blackbody form and who just pleaded guilty to embezzling millions of anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background dollars? radiation. There is a cult of ignorance in the United These points amount to a great deal more States, and there always has been. The strain of than a “belief.” anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread Dr. Walston’s comments are from a letter winding its way through our political and published in the Wall Street Journal circa cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that October 2006 responding to another writer democracy means that “my ignorance is just as critical of the Big Bang Model. good as your knowledge.”—Isaac Asimov, The interested reader will find the book Newsweek (21 January 1980). Kepler and the Universe by David K Love an easy Brian Fejar to read guide that takes the reader to the edge of Albuquerque our current knowledge of the universe that includes the Big Bang Model. This book has Belief vs. Big Bang footnotes and references, it’s not about belief, it’s about demonstrable science. We now know our Dear Editor, solar system lies in a galaxy containing some Steven Dapra’s letter to the editor [v26, i43] 100,000,000,000 stars. And there are something begins by saying that the complaints about the like 100,000,000,000 galaxies in the observable proposed science standards for New Mexico Universe. Mankind has become rather education have no merit. insignificant in the cosmic scale. He concludes by saying, “all of the old Earth Michael Daly dating methods are based on assumptions that Grants can not be proven. What good is a belief that’s based on unprovable assumptions?” I wonder how much proof Mr. Dapra would Observe This! require. The age of the Earth is tied to and based Dear Editor, upon the Big Bang Model. According to Sean In the Oct. 26 - Nov. 01 edition, you printed a Walston, Ph. D. Physics, who made the letter from Steven Dapra. Mr. Dapra said that following points in 2006 while at Stanford “old Earth dating methods” [sic] are based on Linear Accelerator Center at Stanford assumptions that cannot be proven. University, the Standard Big Bang Model is The radiometric dating methods are based on supported on theoretical grounds by Einstein’s observed, not assumed, decay rates of elemental Theory of General Relativity. According to the isotopes. These radiometric data show that biennial Review of Particle Physics put out by the minerals of 4 billion years’ age exist on Earth. Particle Data Group, “the observed expansion of Gregory Corning the Universe is a natural [almost inevitable] result of any homogeneous and isotropic cosmological model based on general relativity.” The Basis The review goes on, according to Dr. Walston, Dear Editor, to say that “all present experimental tests [of In the October 26 Letters a truly mind-bending, gravitational theory] are compatible with the alogical comment by Steven Darpa was predictions of … Einstein’s General Relativity”.